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06ALMATY3242 | 2006-09-15 00:49:00 | UNCLASSIFIED | US Office Almaty |
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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 03 ALMATY 003242 |
1. The following information, provided by USAID Almaty in response to reftel request, represents existing programs that support Internet freedom. Total funding levels are listed. A. Project Name: Information and Communication Technology Statistics Improvement Recipient: Kazakhstan Agency of Statistics (KAS) Project Description: Create within the KAS the capacity to supply public and private users with reliable statistics on information and communication technology that are compliant with international practice. IT Component: Technical assistance & training to develop methodologies to supply reliable ICT statistics. FY 05 Funding: U.S. $ 0 FY 06 Funding: U.S. $ 129,847 B. Project Name: Encouraging Education Reform in Kazakhstan Recipient: Local schools through the Kazakhstan Reading Association (KazRa) Project Description: Increasing civic responsibility among university faculty, elementary and secondary teachers, parents, and children through promoting reading and writing for critical thinking and support of the education reform in Kazakhstan IT Component: USAID through the Kazakhstan Reading Association provided local schools with computers. This includes Akkystau region school in Atyrau oblast ($1,202.05); Aktau school #21 ($1,202.05); Astana Socio- economic Lyceum ($1,202.05); and Ust-Kamenogorsk School- Gymnasium #3 ($1,202.05) FY 05 Funding: U.S. $ 150,000 FY 06 Funding: U.S. 0 C. Project Name: Health Partnerships, AIHA Recipient: Kazakh School of Public Health; Demeu Family Medicine Center; Medical Schools; Nursing College. Project Description: Establishing sustainable health partnerships between the U.S. and the Central Asian countries, which foster more effective and efficient delivery of health services in Central Asia. To improve the quality of care, including maternity child health, HIV/AIDS; expand community and individual responsibility for health; to strengthen medical education and training of health professionals; and to improve resource use through expanded health management capabilities. IT Component: To provide access to online medical resources and Internet-based communication tools through a Learning Resource Center (LRC). FY 05 Funding: U.S. $ 699,600 (incl. $42,000 IT Component) FY 06 Funding: U.S. 0 D. Project Name: Program for Infectious Disease Control in CAR (Central and Local Governments), CDC PASA/HIV Recipient: Republican and Oblast Sanitary Epidemiological Stations, National and local AIDS Centers Project Description: To control infectious diseases with the focus on HIV/AIDS surveillance; TB laboratory diagnosis and electronic surveillance; blood safety; definition of live birth; epidemiology network; applied epidemiology training program. IT Component: Electronic Sentinel Surveillance System to collect HIV data among sentinel groups; Applied Epidemiology Training Program (AETP) to train specialists on prevention, study and research of ID. FY 05 Funding: U.S. $ 109,075 FY 06 Funding: U.S. $ 155,316 E. Project Name: Ensuring Access to Quality Health Care in Central Asia, Zdrav Plus II, Abt Associates ALMATY 00003242 002.2 OF 003 Recipient: Ministry of Health, Oblast Health Departments Project Description: To assist the Central Asian Republics (CAR) of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to increase people's access to and utilization of quality primary health care. IT Component: To prepare a platform for the implementation of an integrated Health Information System (HIS) on the national level. To establish Medical Information Centers (MIC) to support implementation of an integrated Health Information System (HIS) on the oblast level. FY 05 Funding: U.S. $ 732,513 FY 06 Funding: U.S. $ 770,807 (incl. $53,000 IT component) F. Project Name: USAID TB Control Program for CAR, Project Hope Recipient: Ministry of Health, National TB Centers and Oblast TB Dispensaries Project Description: To prevent and control TB with the focus on building political support for TB control; building human and systems capacity; community advocacy and mobilization. IT Component: TB Electronic Surveillance Care Management System (TB ESCM) to develop analytical skills on using national TB registrar. FY 05 Funding: U.S. $ 604,154 FY 06 Funding: U.S. $ 604,154 G. Project Name: Central Asian Program on AIDS Control and Intervention Targeting Youth and High-Risk Groups (CAPACITY), JSI Recipient: National AIDS Center Project Description: To build technical capacity in launching large-scale and urgent responses to HIV/AIDS, and develop institutions and networks in Central Asia that can take a leading role in providing technical assistance to the process of implementation of the grant from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (GFATM) and other resources devoted to control of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the region. IT Component: To provide Internet access to technical specialists at the National AIDS Center. FY 05 Funding: U.S. $ 717,160 FY 06 Funding: U.S. $ 651,015 2. Planned projects that will support Internet freedom include: A. Internet Access and Training Program (IATP): USAID has taken over responsibility for IATP from Public Affairs. The program will be managed by USAID/Washington with $150,000 budgeted for Kazakhstan in FY2006. Post believes that the program will begin in 2007. B. Project Name: Regional Trade Liberalization and Customs (RTLC) Project Recipient: Ministry of Trade, Customs Committee, Ministry of Transportation, WTO department Project Description: The goal of the Project is to foster economic growth and improve the competitiveness of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan through improving conditions for international and cross-border trade and transit. The activities to be carried out include: targeted support for World Trade Organization (WTO) accession and post-accession compliance; reduction of trade barriers relating to transport, transit, border crossing, and customs clearance; and support to regional cooperation for data collection and sharing, including to increase the access of SMEs to market information within and beyond the region IT Component: The project will provide ICT training to assist in developing information sharing and data consolidation mechanisms for custom operations, and will provide TA for establishment of data transfer protocols, for revising processes according to international best practices, and for development of common performance ALMATY 00003242 003.2 OF 003 standards. In order to promote regional cooperation, the project will also provide technical assistance and training to develop methodologies to supply reliable ICT statistics to assist in instituting pilot testing for joint customs control between Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, and possibly between Tajikistan and Afghanistan. FY 05 Funding: U.S. 0 FY 06 Funding: U.S. $964,200 C. Project Name: GOK IT training system (part of a larger project) Recipient: Agency for Informatization and Communications, Government of Kazakhstan Project Description: Improving business environment in Kazakhstan. In partnership with the Agency for Informatization and Communications in Kazakhstan, develop a uniform Information Technology (IT) training system for government employees responsible for developing and implementing e-government policies and practices in Kazakhstan. IT Component: develop a uniform Information Technology (IT) training system for government employees responsible for developing and implementing e-government policies and practices in Kazakhstan. FY 2007 Funding: $250,000 (estimated amount) Government of Kazakhstan Cost-Share. ORDWAY |